The oil companies and oil producing nations dont care about things like this because it doesn't hurt them. This project (or any other project that changes how electricity is generated) has a near-zero impact on the demand for oil for use as a fuel.
Its way past time for phone OEMs and Google to take a leaf from Apple's book and take carriers out of the picture as gateways when it comes to phone updates.
Apple doesn't have to go through Verizon or Vodafone or China Mobile when they want to push iOS updates so why should Samsung or Google need to do the same thing...
Based on a quick check of online prices at a few major stores here in Australia it would cost at least $1k to buy a TV, surround sound and Blu-Ray setup good enough to even come close to what I get at the cinema I go to. And based on what I pay for tickets and food at that same cinema, that $1k would buy me tickets and munchies for every film that cinema exhibits for an entire year (including all the crappy ones that I wouldn't see even if someone paid me) and still leave plenty of money left over.
I never said everyone should go to the cinema, just that I would personally continue going to the cinema even if a service offering home viewings of films day date with the cinema release existed.
There is no way that watching a movie on my Samsung 32" LCD TV (with in-built stereo speakers) or my even smaller Samsung PC monitor (and fairly generic Creative Labs 2.1 speakers) can come close to watching that movie on the big screen with full surround sound.
And the experience at the movies is great. The cinema I go to only charged me $4.50 (I get concession prices) for my last ticket (although because Disney are so evil they make Darth Vader look like a saint, I will have to pay $6.50 for Star Wars and any other big Disney films going forward). The munchies aren't overpriced either. And I have never experienced any of the negatives of people talking through the movie or using their phones in a way that's annoying or anything else that ruins the experience.
I am a geek and a somewhat heavy computer user/downloader (streaming video on YouTube and elsewhere, large file downloads etc etc etc) and even I dont need 25Mb/s to be happy.
The real problem in the US are people stuck with dialup (unusable on today's internet), wireless (slow as hell and very high latency), slow ADSL (ADSL2+ speeds are great if you can get them but many people in the US can only get 1.5Mbps ADSL1 if they are lucky) or slow shared bandwidth options (like cable where the cable companies put far too many people on the one head-end and everyone gets slow speeds all the time).
That and ISPs who have ridiculously low caps (and ridiculously high prices for extra bandwidth if you go over the cap assuming you can even buy more). Wireless providers are the worst offenders here but the big fixed-line ISPs are going in that direction too. Oh and those ISPs who mess with your traffic (e.g. trying to block or restrict BitTorrent or overwriting ads in web pages with their own ads or other scummy things)
If Apple can make a locked iPhone running a stock fresh OS install trigger a special lock app like this, they could just as easily make that same bit of "detect lock" code prevent the home screen from working. And the browser. And the app store. And iTunes. And all the other phone functionality.
Ensure that a locked iPhone cant do anything but display the lock screen no matter how many times you flash it with a new system image.
In this case I was referring to the comment in the summary that "Exceptions will also be made automatically for your more frequently-visited sites -- which, for many users, will include YouTube" and the fact that YouTube should be detecting that someone is running a new enough Chrome version to handle HTML5 video and never serve it Flash video unless you explicitly ask for it (i.e. there shouldn't be a need for an automatic exception for YouTube in Chrome 55 unless the user has explicitly told YouTube that they dont want HTML5 video)
I would have thought that Google would detect browsers that do HTML5 video and make YouTube serve HTML5 video to such browsers by default and only enable Flash if the user has specifically gone into the YouTube settings and disabled HTML5 for some reason.
Or are there still things on YouTube that aren't served as HTML5 even to the latest version of Chrome?
The #1 reason malware is such a big problem is that the scumbags who create and distribute the malware are often located in countries like Russia where the criminal organizations producing and distributing the malware are in bed with the government and there is no willingness from anyone to actually stop this crap from happening.
Considering the Mexicans (or rather the Aztecs who lived in what is now Mexico) invented chocolate, it doesn't surprise me that Mexico has good chocolate:)
The Lindt dark chocolate blocks are my go-to when I want some nicer chocolate although I do still eat the Cadbury's bars a fair bit (even the Cadbury's stuff is a million times better than anything from Nestle)
People who make a profit by ripping off the hard work of other people (whether it be someone selling a knockoff Rolex watch, someone selling a knockoff Gucci bag, someone selling a device that violates the GPL, someone selling bootleg LEGO sets or whatever else) disgust me and the more such people who get prosecuted for their crimes the better.
Trump said he would oppose the merger of AT&T and Warner Bros which sounds like he isn't exactly going to be conducive to a while bunch of anti-competitive mergers...
Tell the ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc) that all the regulations they dont like will go away but in return all the laws, agreements, regulations and other things all over the USA (at all levels of government) that restrict competition also have to go away.
They get to do whatever they want on their own networks but they dont get the right to prevent someone else from comming in and competing with them.
Here in Australia we have a competitive market for broadband in most parts of the country and because of that, very few (if any) ISPs do the kind of crap they do in the USA.
If only our government was smart and set some policy settings encouraging the building of renewables (we have plenty of places in this country that would be perfect for baseload solar setups plus wind power, biofuels, geothermal and more) rather than digging yet more coal out of the ground and burning it (or using coal seam gas which is almost as bad)
This isn't about the cows that chew on grass all day, this is about the cows in big industrial feedlots that are fed things cows were never meant to eat. (I have seen stories of cows being fed chocolate bars and candy, foods that even humans shouldn't be eating let alone animals that need a lot more fibre in their diet than humans do...)
If you can replace that feed with something that doesn't cost the farmer any extra money and is better for the cows and the planet, I think the farmers will be interested.
Whether its possible to produce the seaweed at a price that is competitive with current cattle feed (and whether the corn industry would allow it to happen) is the real question.
Same here, my N900 still works great and I will keep using it until it dies, my carrier makes a change that means I cant use it anymore or I can somehow afford something better (which basically at this point means a Neo900)
Judging by the number of jobs I see asking for "3 years commercial experience" with Java (and usually a boat load of other technologies I have never heard of) there is clearly a lot of demand for Java (Java EE most likely) in the corporate world.
As a software developer (who has released a lot of personal open source code as well as writing stuff that people paid me to write) I can see that 20 years is plenty.
Any open source software that is 20 years old is unlikely to be of value today (Linux may be 20 years old but I doubt anyone is going to be using 20 year old code anymore, they will be using recent source trees that are a lot newer than that)
I am an Aussie and I know a fair bit about the banks in this country. The other banks (other than ANZ) dont like Apple Pay not because of control but because they dont like the idea that they have to give Apple money out of it (something they dont have to do with their contactless payment apps on various Android handsets).
The ANZ has adopted Apple Pay because it can use it as a marketing tool and a way to get customers (and it isn't as annoyed at the money that goes to Apple as the others are I guess)
The hotel lobby who got this law passed didn't care about what AirBnB did to housing costs, they only cared that AirBnB stopped them from being so greedy and making big $$$ from visitors to NYC.
A vote for Trump is also four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.
No-one who actually stands a snowballs chance in hell of becoming president is going to actually DO anything about the spying (no matter what they may say during an election campaign).
At least a vote for Clinton isn't a vote for a guy who has said things that would probably get you thrown in jail or worse if you said them openly on the street in any number of Arab countries.
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I have a Netgear DGN2200M and the exploit (as described in the article) doesn't work on my router thankfully.
The oil companies and oil producing nations dont care about things like this because it doesn't hurt them. This project (or any other project that changes how electricity is generated) has a near-zero impact on the demand for oil for use as a fuel.
Its way past time for phone OEMs and Google to take a leaf from Apple's book and take carriers out of the picture as gateways when it comes to phone updates.
Apple doesn't have to go through Verizon or Vodafone or China Mobile when they want to push iOS updates so why should Samsung or Google need to do the same thing...
Based on a quick check of online prices at a few major stores here in Australia it would cost at least $1k to buy a TV, surround sound and Blu-Ray setup good enough to even come close to what I get at the cinema I go to. And based on what I pay for tickets and food at that same cinema, that $1k would buy me tickets and munchies for every film that cinema exhibits for an entire year (including all the crappy ones that I wouldn't see even if someone paid me) and still leave plenty of money left over.
I never said everyone should go to the cinema, just that I would personally continue going to the cinema even if a service offering home viewings of films day date with the cinema release existed.
Make it illegal to re-sell tickets to an event for higher than face value.
There is no way that watching a movie on my Samsung 32" LCD TV (with in-built stereo speakers) or my even smaller Samsung PC monitor (and fairly generic Creative Labs 2.1 speakers) can come close to watching that movie on the big screen with full surround sound.
And the experience at the movies is great. The cinema I go to only charged me $4.50 (I get concession prices) for my last ticket (although because Disney are so evil they make Darth Vader look like a saint, I will have to pay $6.50 for Star Wars and any other big Disney films going forward). The munchies aren't overpriced either. And I have never experienced any of the negatives of people talking through the movie or using their phones in a way that's annoying or anything else that ruins the experience.
I am a geek and a somewhat heavy computer user/downloader (streaming video on YouTube and elsewhere, large file downloads etc etc etc) and even I dont need 25Mb/s to be happy.
The real problem in the US are people stuck with dialup (unusable on today's internet), wireless (slow as hell and very high latency), slow ADSL (ADSL2+ speeds are great if you can get them but many people in the US can only get 1.5Mbps ADSL1 if they are lucky) or slow shared bandwidth options (like cable where the cable companies put far too many people on the one head-end and everyone gets slow speeds all the time).
That and ISPs who have ridiculously low caps (and ridiculously high prices for extra bandwidth if you go over the cap assuming you can even buy more). Wireless providers are the worst offenders here but the big fixed-line ISPs are going in that direction too. Oh and those ISPs who mess with your traffic (e.g. trying to block or restrict BitTorrent or overwriting ads in web pages with their own ads or other scummy things)
If Apple can make a locked iPhone running a stock fresh OS install trigger a special lock app like this, they could just as easily make that same bit of "detect lock" code prevent the home screen from working. And the browser. And the app store. And iTunes. And all the other phone functionality.
Ensure that a locked iPhone cant do anything but display the lock screen no matter how many times you flash it with a new system image.
In this case I was referring to the comment in the summary that "Exceptions will also be made automatically for your more frequently-visited sites -- which, for many users, will include YouTube" and the fact that YouTube should be detecting that someone is running a new enough Chrome version to handle HTML5 video and never serve it Flash video unless you explicitly ask for it (i.e. there shouldn't be a need for an automatic exception for YouTube in Chrome 55 unless the user has explicitly told YouTube that they dont want HTML5 video)
I would have thought that Google would detect browsers that do HTML5 video and make YouTube serve HTML5 video to such browsers by default and only enable Flash if the user has specifically gone into the YouTube settings and disabled HTML5 for some reason.
Or are there still things on YouTube that aren't served as HTML5 even to the latest version of Chrome?
The #1 reason malware is such a big problem is that the scumbags who create and distribute the malware are often located in countries like Russia where the criminal organizations producing and distributing the malware are in bed with the government and there is no willingness from anyone to actually stop this crap from happening.
Considering the Mexicans (or rather the Aztecs who lived in what is now Mexico) invented chocolate, it doesn't surprise me that Mexico has good chocolate :)
The Lindt dark chocolate blocks are my go-to when I want some nicer chocolate although I do still eat the Cadbury's bars a fair bit (even the Cadbury's stuff is a million times better than anything from Nestle)
People who make a profit by ripping off the hard work of other people (whether it be someone selling a knockoff Rolex watch, someone selling a knockoff Gucci bag, someone selling a device that violates the GPL, someone selling bootleg LEGO sets or whatever else) disgust me and the more such people who get prosecuted for their crimes the better.
Trump said he would oppose the merger of AT&T and Warner Bros which sounds like he isn't exactly going to be conducive to a while bunch of anti-competitive mergers...
Tell the ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc) that all the regulations they dont like will go away but in return all the laws, agreements, regulations and other things all over the USA (at all levels of government) that restrict competition also have to go away.
They get to do whatever they want on their own networks but they dont get the right to prevent someone else from comming in and competing with them.
Here in Australia we have a competitive market for broadband in most parts of the country and because of that, very few (if any) ISPs do the kind of crap they do in the USA.
If only our government was smart and set some policy settings encouraging the building of renewables (we have plenty of places in this country that would be perfect for baseload solar setups plus wind power, biofuels, geothermal and more) rather than digging yet more coal out of the ground and burning it (or using coal seam gas which is almost as bad)
This isn't about the cows that chew on grass all day, this is about the cows in big industrial feedlots that are fed things cows were never meant to eat. (I have seen stories of cows being fed chocolate bars and candy, foods that even humans shouldn't be eating let alone animals that need a lot more fibre in their diet than humans do...)
If you can replace that feed with something that doesn't cost the farmer any extra money and is better for the cows and the planet, I think the farmers will be interested.
Whether its possible to produce the seaweed at a price that is competitive with current cattle feed (and whether the corn industry would allow it to happen) is the real question.
Same here, my N900 still works great and I will keep using it until it dies, my carrier makes a change that means I cant use it anymore or I can somehow afford something better (which basically at this point means a Neo900)
Judging by the number of jobs I see asking for "3 years commercial experience" with Java (and usually a boat load of other technologies I have never heard of) there is clearly a lot of demand for Java (Java EE most likely) in the corporate world.
Ataturk would be spinning in his grave if he knew of the things Erdogan has done to the country.
As a software developer (who has released a lot of personal open source code as well as writing stuff that people paid me to write) I can see that 20 years is plenty.
Any open source software that is 20 years old is unlikely to be of value today (Linux may be 20 years old but I doubt anyone is going to be using 20 year old code anymore, they will be using recent source trees that are a lot newer than that)
I am an Aussie and I know a fair bit about the banks in this country. The other banks (other than ANZ) dont like Apple Pay not because of control but because they dont like the idea that they have to give Apple money out of it (something they dont have to do with their contactless payment apps on various Android handsets).
The ANZ has adopted Apple Pay because it can use it as a marketing tool and a way to get customers (and it isn't as annoyed at the money that goes to Apple as the others are I guess)
The hotel lobby who got this law passed didn't care about what AirBnB did to housing costs, they only cared that AirBnB stopped them from being so greedy and making big $$$ from visitors to NYC.
A vote for Trump is also four more years of lies, evasions, secret warrants and other unconstitutional actions.
No-one who actually stands a snowballs chance in hell of becoming president is going to actually DO anything about the spying (no matter what they may say during an election campaign).
At least a vote for Clinton isn't a vote for a guy who has said things that would probably get you thrown in jail or worse if you said them openly on the street in any number of Arab countries.